William B. Melchior

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

William B. Melchior is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, William B. Melchior has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Organic Chemistry and 4 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in William B. Melchior's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (7 papers), Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (4 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (2 papers). William B. Melchior is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (7 papers), Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (4 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (2 papers). William B. Melchior collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and Portugal. William B. Melchior's co-authors include David Fahrney, Peter H. von Hippel, William H. Tolleson, Frederick A. Beland, Barbara Sollner-Webb, Gary Felsenfeld, M. Matilde Marques, Lei Guo, Levan Muskhelishvili and Lynda J. McGarrity and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

William B. Melchior

20 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Ethoxyformylation of proteins. Reaction of ethoxyformic anhydride with .alpha.-chymotrypsin, pepsin, and pancreatic ribonuclease at pH 4

1970 370 citations William B. Melchior, David Fahrney Biochemistry profile →

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William B. Melchior

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B L Vallee United States

Annelies Vantieghem Belgium

Tsutomu Masuda Japan

Masatoshi Murai Japan

Atsuo Nagamatsu Japan

Isaac M. Westwood United Kingdom

Dieter Werner Germany

Colin D. Reynolds United Kingdom

Carla Guimarães Portugal

Z.N. Canellakis United States

B L Vallee United States

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Treadwell, Edward L., Kenneth L. Wiley, Beverly Word, et al.. (2015). Prolactin and Dehydroepiandrosterone Levels in Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: The Role of the Extrapituitary Prolactin Promoter Polymorphism at −1149G/T. Journal of Immunology Research. 2015. 1–10. 14 indexed citations

Chen, Si, William B. Melchior, & Lei Guo. (2014). Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Drug- and Environmental Toxicant-Induced Liver Toxicity. Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part C. 32(1). 83–104. 51 indexed citations

Chen, Si, William B. Melchior, Yuanfeng Wu, & Lei Guo. (2014). Autophagy in drug-induced liver toxicity. Journal of Food and Drug Analysis. 22(2). 161–168. 23 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhe, Kiet T. Nguyen, William B. Melchior, et al.. (2013). Thermal inactivation reaction rates for ricin are influenced by pH and carbohydrates. Food and Chemical Toxicology. 58. 116–123. 9 indexed citations

Melchior, William B. & William H. Tolleson. (2009). A functional quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay for ricin, Shiga toxin, and related ribosome-inactivating proteins. Analytical Biochemistry. 396(2). 204–211. 43 indexed citations

Morris, Suzanne M., Gregory Akerman, Varsha G. Desai, et al.. (2007). Effect of p53 genotype on gene expression profiles in murine liver. Mutation research. Fundamental and molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis. 640(1-2). 54–73. 3 indexed citations

Tolleson, William H., Letha H. Couch, William B. Melchior, et al.. (1999). Fumonisin B1 induces apoptosis in cultured human keratinocytes through sphinganine accumulation and ceramide depletion.. International Journal of Oncology. 14(5). 833–43. 57 indexed citations

Beland, Frederick A., et al.. (1997). Arylamine–DNA adduct conformation in relation to mutagenesis. Mutation research. Fundamental and molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis. 376(1-2). 13–19. 24 indexed citations

Marques, M. Matilde, et al.. (1997). Effect of Substitution Site upon the Oxidation Potentials of Alkylanilines, the Mutagenicities of N-Hydroxyalkylanilines, and the Conformations of Alkylaniline−DNA Adducts. Chemical Research in Toxicology. 10(11). 1266–1274. 40 indexed citations

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Tolleson, William H., William B. Melchior, Suzanne M. Morris, et al.. (1996). Apoptotic and anti-proliferative effects of fumonisin B₁ in human keratinocytes, fibroblasts, esophageal epithelial cells and hepatoma cells. Carcinogenesis. 17(2). 239–249. 106 indexed citations

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Melchior, William B., M. Matilde Marques, & Frederick A. Beland. (1994). Mutations induced by aromatic amine DNA adducts in pBR322. Carcinogenesis. 15(5). 889–899. 50 indexed citations

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Beland, Frederick A., William B. Melchior, Valentine J. Klimkowski, & Lothar Schäfer. (1986). Ab initio study on the molecular structure of trans-1,2-dihydroxy-1,2-dihydro-8-fluoronaphthalene. Cancer Letters. 33(2). 205–213. 1 indexed citations

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Lipkowitz, Kenny B., Adel M. Naylor, & William B. Melchior. (1984). An alternative to MMP2. Tetrahedron Letters. 25(22). 2297–2300. 24 indexed citations

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Melchior, William B. & Frederick A. Beland. (1984). Preferential reaction of the carcinogen N-acetoxy-2-acetylaminofluorene with satellite DNA. Chemico-Biological Interactions. 49(1-2). 177–187. 4 indexed citations

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Beland, Frederick A., William B. Melchior, Valentine J. Klimkowski, et al.. (1984). Ab initio study on the molecular structure of the naphthalene metabolite, trans-1,2-dihydroxy-1,2-dihydronaphthalene. Carcinogenesis. 5(8). 1097–1100. 5 indexed citations

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Kadlubar, Fred F., et al.. (1981). Structural consequences of modification of the oxygen atom of guanine in DNA by the carcinogen N-hydroxy-1-naphthylamine.. PubMed. 41(6). 2168–74. 9 indexed citations

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Sollner-Webb, Barbara, William B. Melchior, & Gary Felsenfeld. (1978). DNAase I, DNAase II and staphylococcal nuclease cut at different, yet symmetrically located, sites in the nucleosome core. Cell. 14(3). 611–627. 87 indexed citations

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Felsenfeld, Gary, et al.. (1976). Organization of proteins in chromatin.. PubMed. 3–13. 1 indexed citations

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Melchior, William B. & Peter H. von Hippel. (1973). Alteration of the Relative Stability of dA·dT and dG·dC Base Pairs in DNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 70(2). 298–302. 188 indexed citations

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Melchior, William B. & David Fahrney. (1970). Ethoxyformylation of proteins. Reaction of ethoxyformic anhydride with .alpha.-chymotrypsin, pepsin, and pancreatic ribonuclease at pH 4. Biochemistry. 9(2). 251–258. 370 indexed citations breakdown →

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